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+# $EPIC: set_metric_time.txt,v 1.2 2006/08/20 13:51:17 sthalik Exp $
+======Synopsis:======
+[[set]] metric time [ON|OFF|TOGGLE]
+======Description:======
+For the discerning metric snob who turns his nose up at the idea of having to
+deal with such baroque concepts as "seconds", "minutes" and "hours", we offer
+Metric Time.  Metric Time has only one unit of measure, the Day.  When you turn
+metric_time on, EPIC begins to do all internal time processing strictly in
+milliday units.  As a concession to those who are stuck in the slavery of
+antiquated systems, /[[TIMER]], /[[PAUSE]] and /[[SLEEP]] continue to accept
+the obsolete unit "second".
+Metric time has no time zone -- Time is measured in millidays since the
+beginning of the day in Universal Coordinated Time.  The status bar will begin
+showing millidays, /[[ON TIMER]] and /[[ON IDLE]] will begin using millidays.
+Metric Time is different from Swatch Time because Swatch Time is based on the
+time zone of the headquarters of the Swatch company, which is +0100.

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